More on the Palm Beach-West Palm Beach ferry

The ferry that carried tourists and residents from the West Palm Beach municipal docks on Flagler Drive to the Biltmore Hotel in Palm Beach was dubbed a ‘horizontal elevator’ in a 1963 feature in The Palm Beach Post-Times.

Its colorful history has been featured in Post Time columns in 2007 and 2010.

Bruce Colyer of Fort Lauderdale — who along with his mother, Lucile DeTar Colyer, owned and operated the ferry until 1966 — sent a trove of photos and articles about the history of the ferry to Post Time columnist Eliot Kleinberg, but we didn’t have enough space in newspaper to share them all.